Improvement in loops for carriage-tops



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

FRED. A. NEIDER, OF AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN LOO PS FOR CARRIAGE-TOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,637, datedSeptember 25, 1877 application filed August 11, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED. A. NEIDER, of Augusta, in the county ofBracken and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Loops for Carriage-Tops and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a plan view of my loopfor carriagetops. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view.Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are details of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a loop for carriage-tops, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents a metal loop, of any suitable dimensions, forming at eachend a buckleframe, B, open at its top, as seen in the drawing, andprovided with the cross-bar b and holes 0, to serve as bearings for theaxis or journal of the tongue 0. In each buckle. frame B is pivoted atongue, 0, and from the inner edges of the loop, on each side, projectsan ear, a, on a line, or nearly on a line, with the axis or pivot of thetongue. At each end of the loop these cars are passed through slots in ametal plate, D, and clinched on the under side thereof. The loop, withthe buckleframes and projecting ears, are all made of one piece, eitherstruck up of sheet metal, or cast of malleable iron. In the latter casethe ears or are made shorter, and not bent or clinched under the platesD, but riveted, so as to hold said plates.

The object of the plates D is to keep the loop A from spreading, whichwould disengage the tongue. E represents the back stay of the buggy-top,and said stay is fastened between the loop and plate by the ears passingthrough it and secured as above described. G represents a part of theback curtain, with strap H fastened in the buckle.

It will be noticed that by this construction the loop really forms thebuckle itself, with the tongue pivoted within the same, and has nobuckles to become detached, which would render the loop useless.

It can be manufactured at comparatively small cost.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is-

The loop A, having ears 0. a, holes 0 c. and buckle-frames B B,open attheir tops and provided with the cross-bars b b, all made in one piece,in combination with the slotted plates D D and tongues O O,substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

FRED. A. NEIDER.

Witnesses:

JOHN M. HARBEsoN, F. W. ALLEN.

